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senate vote 2024-02-29#2
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Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report- Committees - Selection of Bills Committee; Report - Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Legislation Amendment (Safety and Other Measures) Bill 2024
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<p class="speaker">Anthony Chisholm</p><p>I move:</p>-
- The majority voted in favour of an [amendment](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2024-02-29.18.1) introduced by South Australian Senator [Anne Ruston](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/sa/anne_ruston) (Liberal), which means it succeeded.
- ### Amendment text
- > *At the end of the motion, add "and, in respect of the [Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Legislation Amendment (Safety and Other Measures) Bill 2024](https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Fbillhome%2Fr7149%22), the provisions of the bill be referred immediately to the Economics Legislation Committee [for inquiry and report](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Economics/OPGSAmend24) by 22 March 2024".*
<p class="italic">At the end of the motion, add "and the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment Bill 2024 not be referred to a committee".</p><p>Question agreed to.</p> <p class="speaker">Anne Ruston</p><p>On behalf of Senator Canavan, I withdraw his amendment to the motion. I move:</p><p class="italic">At the end of the motion, add "and, in respect of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Legislation Amendment (Safety and Other Measures) Bill 2024, the provisions of the bill be referred immediately to the Economics Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 22 March 2024".</p> <p class="speaker">Nick McKim</p><p>As confidently predicted just 10 minutes ago, the fix is in. The gas cartel has reached into this chamber with its power and influence, and the chamber is about to vote for the most minuscule and ineffective of Senate inquiries into a critical piece of legislation that undermines the consultation requirements for offshore gas projects. This is exactly what the cartel wanted, and it's exactly what the cartel is going to get today.</p><p>Very instructively, this amendment—which will be supported by the Labor Party—wasn't moved by the Labor Party; it was moved by the Liberal Party. Let's rewind to last year, when Mr Dutton assumed his position as Acting Prime Minister when the government was constructing its response to the High Court decision that, quite rightly, rendered indefinite immigration detention illegal and unlawful in Australia. Here we go again; Mr Dutton is flexing his muscles and Mr Dutton is giving Labor its riding instructions.</p><p>Make no mistake, the Coles and Woolworths of Australian politics—or should I say the Santos and Woodside of Australian politics, because that's what we're dealing with here, the two big gas corporations—are colluding to do over First Nations people. The first thing this government is doing since the Voice referendum is removing a voice from First Nations people, as my friend and colleague Senator Cox said. What an absolute disgrace this is! In the middle of a climate emergency, when First Nations people in this country have been dealt a bitter blow in the result of the referendum, what does the government do? It comes in here and enables the planet cookers by doing over First Nations people and reducing their voice in standing up for their communities and standing up for their country.</p><p>This is a dark day in the Senate, and it's going to be delivered by the Santos and Woodside of Australian politics—the political parties that take massive donations from the gas cartel and then come in here and vote for whatever the cartel asks them to deliver. The Greens aren't going to have a bar of this. We are not going to do the bidding of the gas cartel. We are not going to accept their filthy political donations. We are not going to collude to do the bidding of the cartel to do over consultation requirements in particular for First Nations Australians, who want to defend their waters, their country and their communities against the rapacious actions of the giant gas corporations in Australia.</p> <p class="speaker">Lidia Thorpe</p><p>Free, prior and informed consent. I'd like to see that, in the name of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples—whose oceans are ours, who we've protected and maintained for thousands and thousands and thousands of generations. You lot get together, including the native police there—</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Senator Thorpe, withdraw.</p> <p class="speaker">Lidia Thorpe</p><p>I beg your pardon?</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>I've asked you to withdraw that comment. Withdraw.</p> <p class="speaker">Lidia Thorpe</p><p>It's a known fact.</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Senator Thorpe, you are not in a debate with me. Withdraw that comment, otherwise I will withdraw your—</p> <p class="speaker">Lidia Thorpe</p><p>I withdraw my comment on native police.</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Senator Thorpe, no! That is not what I accept in this place. I do not want the offensive comment repeated.</p> <p class="speaker">Lidia Thorpe</p><p>It's not offensive. It's a fact.</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Senator Thorpe, you are not in a debate with me. Simply withdraw the comment.</p> <p class="speaker">Lidia Thorpe</p><p>I withdraw for now.</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Senator Thorpe—</p> <p class="speaker">Lidia Thorpe</p><p>I withdraw.</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Thank you. Please continue.</p> <p class="speaker">Lidia Thorpe</p><p>Unfortunately, the history of this country includes having our own people be part of our own genocide. In this case, that is what is happening. Free, prior and informed consent has not been obtained from the traditional owners whose land it is to destroy our oceans and every totem in our oceans that are for all of our future generations. Not just blackfellas in this country but all of our generations depend on what is in the ocean and in all of the oceans surrounding this beautiful country. You lot get together, and you are in bed with the developers. Your donations are so important to your political agendas that you're willing to sacrifice our oceans and the totems that belong in those oceans and the songlines that belong in those oceans. Shame on you all—shame for the genocide that each and every one of you continue because your donations are so much more important. How do you sleep at night, knowing that you are destroying your own country and your own ocean? What do your ancestors say about that? Shame! Seismic testing on my country—where's your consent? You're going to kill the whales. What about the whale stories and the Dreaming and the songlines that connect the oceans around this country?</p><p>If you want to talk about truth-telling, why don't you talk about the truth for those defenceless totems that we've maintained? Are you willing to kill them in the name of your party and your party donation? Is that what you're willing to do? You are complicit in the ongoing genocide, which includes destroying our oceans and destroying our songlines, all for a dirty little donation to get you re-elected. Shame on you all! I hope this haunts you all forever. I hope this haunts your families forever.</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Senator Thorpe, withdraw that comment.</p> <p class="speaker">Lidia Thorpe</p><p>I withdraw the fact. What is wrong with saying that?</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Senator Thorpe, you are not in a debate with me. I've asked you to withdraw the comment.</p> <p class="speaker">Lidia Thorpe</p><p>I withdraw the comment.</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Thank you.</p> <p class="speaker">Lidia Thorpe</p><p>This is absolute destruction and devastation for our children's children. You are destroying the oceans. How is that possible? In the face of a climate catastrophe, don't you see what's going on around the world? Your dirty little donations are so much more important because your power in this place takes precedence over your children's future. You all should be absolutely ashamed. There has not been free, prior and informed consent, certainly not from my people, the Djab Wurrung Gunditjmara people, whose ocean is about to be destroyed because of your disgusting, dirty donations.</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Senator Thorpe, I also need to remind you—</p> <p class="speaker">Lidia Thorpe</p><p>I withdraw that.</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>No, I'm not asking you to withdraw; let me finish—to please make your comments through the chair.</p> <p class="speaker">Lidia Thorpe</p><p>There is no consent from anybody to destroy Gunditjmara Djab Wurrung ocean. There is no consent. You are all criminals.</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Senator Thorpe, withdraw that comment, please.</p> <p class="speaker">Lidia Thorpe</p><p>I withdraw, but you're doing the wrong thing, and when you do the wrong thing, things happen.</p> <p class="speaker">Matthew Canavan</p><p>I just want to stand up and proudly support the 20,000 Australian men and women people who work in our fantastic oil and gas industry. They do very hard work on behalf of all of us. It is an incredibly difficult and risky endeavour for anyone to work at, especially on an offshore oil rig. They spend months away from their families, locked in a small area with their work colleagues. It's a risky job from time to time, and they deserve our support. They work for our nation. They work to keep us all going.</p><p>The Greens say that the oil and gas industry is a dirty industry. Well, it's dirty in the sense that those who work on an oil rig end up with grease and oil and mud all over them at the end of the day. They've got to have a shower at the end of the day. At the end of their work, they have to have a shower. All of you over there and me and all of us here have the liberty of showering before work, and it's a very easy life. Those people work really hard, and you have no idea of what they have to go through.</p><p>Not only do you have no idea about it—through you, Chair—but the Greens are absolute hypocrites, because I remember that only 18 months or so ago the Greens were in here supporting a bill which enforced—</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Senator Canavan, you need to withdraw the comment you made in relation to senators.</p> <p class="speaker">Matthew Canavan</p><p>I withdraw.</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>And you really need to be focused on the amendment.</p> <p class="speaker">Matthew Canavan</p><p>Yes, I am focused on the amendment, because the Greens are trying to shut down this industry through this amendment. That's what they're trying to do. Just 18 months ago, the Greens were in this chamber supporting cheap gas.</p><p>Honourable senators interjecting—</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>Senator Canavan, I know it doesn't bother you, but I am going to remind senators that other speakers were listened to in silence, and whether you agree or not, it's appropriate for Senator Canavan to be listened to in silence.</p> <p class="speaker">Matthew Canavan</p><p>The Greens actually wanted cheap gas. They wanted to cap the price of gas. So what is it? They wanted gas that badly that they wanted a cheap price for the gas. That's what they supported, because we all know that we need the products of the oil and gas industry to power our homes and so that we can drive around our country; therefore, we need to support them for ourselves, not just on behalf of those men and women who sacrifice their livelihoods for us. They should be supported. Their hard work should be recognised, and that's why I'm proud to stand with them and oppose the Greens' efforts in this place.</p> <p class="speaker">Sue Lines</p><p>The time for this debate has expired. I'm going to put Senator Ruston's amendment first. The question is that the amendment as moved by Senator Ruston be agreed to.</p><p></p><p></p> -
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